Royal Museum in Edinburgh

Overview

The Royal Museum is attached to the Museum of Scotland. Whilst the Museum of Scotland is focused on telling the story of Scotland and its people, the Royal serves as a more traditional museum with exhibits that feature artefacts from around the World, as well as the crowd pleasing dinosaur skeletons. Always a winner with children. 

The Royal is a beautiful Victorian building with a large "atrium" covered by a glass ceiling that is supported by an elegant ironwork frame work. It is worth a visit just to take in the architecture of the building.

There are 3 levels of exhibits that feature the more conventional museum subjects along with a frequently changing theme of exhibitions that often have a Scottish angle, or which reflect something that is of current interest.

Between the Royal Museum and the Museum of Scotland there is the excellent “Connect” exhibition of interactive science displays that children will love. “Connect” features a full size Formula 1 race car simulator, a NASA space capsule, an old steam train, functioning hot air baloons, robots and lots more.

It's also a nice place to grab a coffee if you need to duck out of the rain, but the cafe is quite expensive for food.